1 2 3 4 Tell Me That You Love Me More
Made famous by the Ipod adverts, and for a few months making the world count…. it’s Feist. I loved the song from the moment I heard it, we all know I’m a sucker for an acoustic guitar, and here’s a lovely one. Feist (named from the lead singer Leslie Feist) comes from Canada, and is often mistakenly identified as a band. In fact the records we now consider familiar are in fact solo releases.
Leslie has been involved in music for more than 25 years, playing in bands from the tender age of 15 years old back at high school, and constantly appearing in choirs and artistic productions throughout her childhood. Notably aged 12, Leslie appeared as one of one thousand dancers at the Calgary Olympics… later citing this experience as the inspiration for the wonderful video I feature today.
In 1995, Feist was forced to take time off from music to recover from vocal-cord damage. She moved from Calgary to Toronto in 1996. That year she was asked by Noah Mintz of hHead to play bass in his solo project Noah’s Arkweld. She played the bass guitar in Noah’s Arkweld for a year despite never having played bass before. In 1998, she became the rhythm guitarist for the band By Divine Right and toured with them throughout 1998, 1999, and 2000.
In 1999, Feist moved in with a friend of a friend, Merrill Nisker, who then began to perform as an electro-punk musician Peaches; Feist worked the back of the stage at Peaches’ shows, using a sock puppet and calling herself “Bitch Lap Lap.” The two also toured together in England from 2000-2001, staying with Justine Frischmann of Elastica and M.I.A. Feist appeared as a guest vocalist on The Teaches of Peaches. Feist appears in Peaches’ video for the song Lovertits, suggestively rubbing and licking a bike. Later, Feist covered this song with Gonzales on her album “Open Season.” She met Gonzales while touring with Peaches, and a long-term collaboration formed.
1-2-3-4 shot Feist to a new level in popular chart culture, particularly in the UK where it reached number 8 in the charts. But here’s the bit i really love… On 20 October 2008, she told the Canadian press that, following the success of her last album, The Reminder, she felt she needed to step away from the pressures of the music industry to consider her next career move and
“rest for a minute“
Some people don’t want ten million pounds, to stand on stage in front of 85,000 fans, to snort coke three times a day, or to be snapped by the Pap everywhere they go. They just want to play.
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